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If not for me or delightful web videos, then watch for the lovely Alison Brie (Community, Mad Men) who will be hottening up the show with her presence.

A brand new Web Soup airs tonight at 8p ET, right after Attack of the Show on G4! Please keep watchin’ em so we can keep makin’ em!

RE: the above picture. This was taken at a Bowling Proprietor’s convention in Las Vegas in 1980. What a machine! I mean, DUAL 5″ FLOPPY DRIVES!!! Look at the concentration and intensity in my eyes…the gadget lust…this would spawn a long and tumultuous relationship with computers that would manifest itself through a purchase the following year of my very first terminal: a Radio Shack TRS-80 that barely booted up.

My first PC wasn’t until my 11th grade year in school and that was in the year 2004. Yeah, talk about “late to the party”. Shared PC with my younger sibling, which was in my siblings room.

Though in elementary school “Lab Day” was always my favorite. Got to go into the “Computer Lab” (which was also the Art Lab more than 1/2 the time) and poke at our schools brand new Apples! I don’t remember to much, being about 7ish at the time, but the fact that the floppies were rather large and easy to destroy.

Commodore-16 baby. Nothing like typing in code for 2 hours to only see a pair of lines do a wave for 4 seconds. Oh, to type “Go to” again. Nothing worse than typing in “End,” hitting enter, and then nothing happens because you missed some random number somewhere. Shit!

Oh, and it had that awesome cassette desk. My first program that I wrote with the extreme help of my brother-in-law was called “Odie.” We asked Odie (from Garfield) prewritten questions to get stupid answers. So awesome at the time…so lame now.

My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20 and I was able to buy a datasette drive for it to save the hours of work I spent typing in the Basic code for games from a magazine I use to get. I also tried to write my own games and got a football simulation to work but it was all text. I also was able to get a Hayes 300 baud modem – had to listen for the pickup tone then quickly unplug the handset cord from the handset and plug into the modem cart. BBS’s were my friend then.

I got to learn Basic on a Trash-80 Model I our Jr High had bought and you could use it during study hall.

First computer was the C64. Also had the “portable” version which weighs pretty much the same as the desktop and has a 3″ screen. Still have it and still use it on occasion when the mood strikes. Donating it to a museum soon, true story.

First puter was a 1985 Commodore 128 but it didn’t work so my parents took it back and got a 64. Still have it! Hoping it will be worth millions someday
Load “*” ,8,1….wow that brings back some memories of the good ol’ days

my first computer at home was a Commodore 64. i loved that it had a cartridge slot on the keyboard. we had the cassette drive and floppy drive peripherals as well. but my first computer memory was going to my dad’s office (he was a Sr Systems Analyist at a hospital) and writing letters to my great-grandmother, that he would then print out on the green/white-striped dot matrix paper. i love that paper. i still have some and i use it for drawings.

oh, and my dad may actually still have the computer. he’s kept almost every computer we’ve owned since 1982, including a weird “portable” Tandy that was only slightly smaller than a guitar case. go, dad!

My first computer was a PC Didn’t-have-a-model-name! I still have it and I still use it to play old DOS games. It had not only a 3.5″ and 5″ floppy drive but also a CD-ROM that was, I believe 4x speed. OOOH-WEEE what a machine.

My first computer was a Tandy — one of the 1000’s, I think. I was three years old (in 1991) when my dad taught me how to use it. He had it set up so that when I typed in my name, it brought up a Sesame Street game. I’ve been hooked on computers ever since.

Coleco ADAM. D: I believe I got it for my birthday in 84, maybe. My parents had bought for a pretty good price from our next door neighbor because they had deemed it useless. I, on the other hand, thought it was the most amazing machine ever… I mean, Buck Rogers!!!!

Chris, I’ll watch tonight but you gotta promise me you’ll consider upping your caloric intake a bit, it makes me sad to look at you sometimes. Maybe a slice of pizza, or have someone drive you (don’t walk, it burns calories) to the Marie Callendar’s down the street from the Comcast offices for some pie.

The first computer I was ever exposed to was an Apple IIe, which was bought by my grandmother, because she thought it would be less of a pain than a typewriter. She never learned to operate it. Then, we got a Tandy 5000 with FOUR WHOLE COLORS ON THE SCREEN!! So very high tech!

I still have my Apple IIe. I saved it from my brother, who was going to turn it into a fishtank.

TRS-80 Model I, 4K RAM with Level I BASIC and a cassette tape drive. I bought it from the local radio shack with money I saved up from bussing tables. A couple of months later, I bought a 16K RAM upgrade kit from Godbout electronics and installed it (with my Dad’s help.) Thus began a long and storied career in geeky gadgetry.

A Vic-20. I believe I wrote the world’s first first person shooter, without the shooting part (ran out of memory just walking down a hallway) Very vector graphics looking, used the peek and poke commands with the built in sprites. Later a friend got the Commodore 64. WOW! Anyone remember Red Storm Rising? That was the pinnacle of Submarine games.

Frakking awesome… my moment was in Sears with my Grandfather, getting a full Commodore 64 setup. He just got home from work at General Electric, he got a bonus from some stuff his department designed for the Space Shuttle.

My dad was a computer programmer for AT&T so we were around computers a lot. He used to bring STACKS of the punch cards home and we used them make our own card set with them. Didn’t have our own computer at home for a LONG time (since Dad worked on them all day at work), but I remember our elementary school getting a couple of Apple IIe s. As one of the older kids in the Gifted program, we were trained to use the computers first – then they had US teach the 1st and 2nd graders how to use them.

My first computer was a Heathkit I made with my dad in the basement – it was a 16K with a tape drive, and I had to write all of the games in BASIC on my own. I played mainly random number guessing games. Later we upgraded and got it a 300 BAUD modem, so dad could connect with ARPAnet.

My very first computer was some old IBM that my aunt used at CoreState bank. The monitor got burned in and voila, a fine paper weight for me! I could at least press the keyboard and pretend that HR was just dying for me to finish that TPS report.

My first *working* computer was an AST 486 (big plus on the ‘working’ part!). I loved that thing.

My first was a Commodore VIC-20. We added the external cassette drive later (couldn’t afford the external 5″ floppy) so we wouldn’t lose all our hard work inputting code when we turned the machine off.